Frank - as you know, I posted on Kobayashi on another thread, and mentioned something I'd read of a Daito-ryu instructor praising the former as doing real Daito-ryu. To be clear, he was not talking about where Kobayashi learned - just that the techniques were essentially DR - yet another bit of now unnecessary supporting evidence that the aiki of aikido and of DR are <essentially> one.
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Ellis Amdur